Lateran Palace
You’re looking at the Lateran Palace—*Palazzo del Laterano*—an ancient Roman Empire residence that becomes, from the fourth century, Rome’s principal papal home. Its story really hinges on who held the estate: the wealthy Laterani family owned it in Roman times, and the estate later passed into the hands of Emperor Constantine the Great, who gifted it to Pope Miltiades while Miltiades was residing at the Basilica of Santa Pudenziana. The palace you see today mostly comes from a major rebuilding campaign begun in the 1580s, designed by Domenico Fontana. It’s a rectangular building organized around a central courtyard, but the earlier medieval palace has largely vanished—except for notable fragments like the Leonian Triclinium, the end wall of a great hall, and the Santa Scala, the “Holy Steps,” which are now built into a separate structure across Saint John’s Square. …
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